Girl ever after: Genki con

Once upon a time, there was only one Japanese pop culture oriented convention in the small kingdom of Denmark. I joined the staff and attended it for four years, but then the con just got too big for it’s own, too little space, too many people, too many unannounced schedule changes, gossip and so on. At least for my own liking. A lot of people still believe in J-popcon and love going, and they plan their cosplay for most of the year.
By this time other conventions had sprung up in the rest of the country, to cater to the many people who wished to share and celebrate their love for anime, manga, cosplay and so on, And many were too young to travel to the other end of the country, or couldn’t afford the very expensive trip, or even just wanted to attend more than one con a year, as well as be able to cosplay without freezing to death (J-popcon was always held in winter).
I had by this time lost the interest almost completely, and only attended J-popcon to participate in the fashion show (where others planned co splays, I planned and made a new dress), but I didn’t really get into the con spirit, most people there seemed very young, annoying and so on. However I now think that you get what you give, and I had a lot of negativity and so only saw the bad things.
Last year however, I attended a new con called Genki (this was only their second year) as I was participating in the fashion show, and was very surprised to discover that I wanted to stay after the show, to hang out with my friends and talk. So, this year, as our great leader Sascha advertised for participants in the lolita show for Genki, I joined, after finding out if I had favourable working hours. And since a lot of friends were coming too, I planned on spending Saturday at the con.
The fashion show was Friday, so I dragged my outfit with me to work, then with me back to Roskilde (which seems silly, but I didn’t want to waste time swinging by the apartment to get the outfit). Keon was a hero, and picked me up at the station so that I didn’t have to bother with busses or walking.
I hung out with Keon, Cecil, Eri and her baby girl Emma for some 15 minutes, and then I had to meet up with the rest of the frill cult to go to a changing room, which had been reserved for us (really cool) It was all back stage, so no one saw our outfits before the show. This was a problem at last years J-popcon).

My outfit was inspired by the newest upcoming craze; OTT classic, and even though I was unsure if you could call black and off white classic, I went for it. My friend Stine joined us as well this year, and dressed in aristocratic boys style. We totally matched 8D

Photo by Ariellah

Rundown

Bonnet - Homemade
Roses - Accessorize + H&M
Blouse - Market (cannot recall the brand)
Dress - Homemade
Stockings - H&M
Shoes - Bianco
Bling - A mix of homemade, H&M and vintage

The bonnet turned out SO well! I’m very pleased with it. I based it on a floppy hat from H&M and then just went crazy with scissors, needle and thread, chiffon and ribbons. The material of the bonnet is wool/felt, and it sits very nicely on the head, so much so that it didn’t need any combs.

As said, I paid a one day ticket for Saturday and it was so much fun! I didn’t attend that many events, but just hung out a lot. It was actually so much fun that I went on Sunday as well. This wasn’t planned as I had a deadline on an E-zine, but I just really needed the weekend to be a little longer, and so I went.

Here’s some mood photos.